Their most famous composition, an up-tempo instrumental, is named, on the original soundtrack, as "Cantina Band", and is credited to the composer John Williams. In subsequent fictional spinoffs, including "Empire Blues" by Daniel Keys Moran and Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, the piece is identified as being titled "Mad About Me". The 1993 Anthology version of the soundtrack and 1997 Special Edition version included a second cue, titled "Cantina Band #2". This mid-tempo track was heard in the original film, but was previously unreleased.

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The band is made up of seven members, all Bith from the planet Clak'dor VII. The leader of the band is Figrin D'an, as the name clearly implies.

The band was popular across the galaxy during the Clone Wars, touring the frontlines and entertaining Republic soldiers. By the time Luke Skywalker reached adulthood, however, they were reduced to playing in seedy cantinas for a living. Only six of the members were playing when Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi walked into the Cantina. Lirin Car'n sat out during the performance, because he was not needed.

The band may have been portrayed by Rick Baker, Phil Tippett, Jon Berg, Laine Liska and Doug Beswick. In 2006, as part of its Commemorative Tin Collection, Hasbro created a set of action figures of the band, which it sold through Walmart. Each figure came with its own instrument.

Alternative band Ash released a cover version of the tune as the B-side of its single "Girl From Mars" in 1995. The Asylum Street Spankers play the tune in an interlude from "Digga Digga Doo," a song from their 2004 album Mercurial. A bluegrass version of the song is performed by Syd Masters & The Swing Riders in the 2011 film Paul during a bar scene and is included on the motion picture soundtrack.

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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (soundtrack)
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John Williams score for Star Wars was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8–12,15 and 16,1977. The score was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Williams himself conducting, the score was orchestrated by Williamss frequent associate Herbert W. Spencer, who also orchestrated The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The film premiered on May 25,1977 and by summer a disco version of the films theme by Meco became Americas number one song. In 2005, the American Film Institute named the original Star Wars soundtrack as the most memorable score of all time for a U. S. film. In 2004, it was preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry, calling it culturally, historically, in 2016, the album was re-released by Sony Classical Records on vinyl, CD, and digital formats alongside Williams other Star Wars soundtracks. The vinyl release is pressed on 180g vinyl, and features the original 20th Century Records logo, the album was released as a double LP which was formatted for an autochanger record player, one disc had sides one and four with the other having sides two and three. First release on LP by 20th Century, for the original soundtrack, John Williams selected 75 minutes of music out of the 88 minute score. To provide musical variety, it did not follow the chronological order. Total Time,74,58 First release on CD by Polydor in 1986 and it is identical in content and packaging to the LP release. This release marked the first time that the contents of the original double-LP releases of the scores from the first two films became available on CD. Disc one in the set was devoted to Star Wars, with tracks on disc four. In the time between the original LP release and the Anthologys release, this breakdown was lost, because of this, many takes of cues used on the Anthology are not the same. This is most obvious on the cue The Throne Room, also, the tracks were re-arranged to better follow their chronological order in the film

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Chalmun's Cantina
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The Chalmuns Cantina is a fictional bar of the Star Wars universe located in the pirate city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine. The establishment is extremely rough in nature, and the clientele, droids are not allowed inside, a droid detector near the front door alerts the management of any entering droid. The exterior scene was filmed in 1976 at the little town of Ajim. The film crew added some false frontage to the structure, giving it a dramatic appearance. The building has seen no refurbishment since 1976, the interior set was constructed and filmed on Stage 6, Elstree Studios in London. In early 1977, Lucas added several alien close-ups at Hollywood Center Studios, the new material was cut into the film by Lucas editors, including then-wife Marcia Lucas. The Cantina segment was enhanced by composer John Williams jazz instrumentals, featured on the album as Cantina Band. The anthology of intertwined short stories Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, explores the cantina and its clientele further. Mark Jonathan Davis, later of Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, made a song of Barry Manilows Copacabana, called Star Wars Cantina. Davis used the melody of that song, his lyrics are a rough outline of Star Wars Episodes IV through VI, Star Wars Cantina is often erroneously attributed to Yankovic. The song was not released on CD due to copyright complications, the musician Voltaire also did a parody on his album Ooky Spooky. Han shot first Star Wars, Databank

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Mos Eisley Cantina
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The Chalmuns Cantina is a fictional bar of the Star Wars universe located in the pirate city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine. The establishment is extremely rough in nature, and the clientele, droids are not allowed inside, a droid detector near the front door alerts the management of any entering droid. The exterior scene was filmed in 1976 at the little town of Ajim. The film crew added some false frontage to the structure, giving it a dramatic appearance. The building has seen no refurbishment since 1976, the interior set was constructed and filmed on Stage 6, Elstree Studios in London. In early 1977, Lucas added several alien close-ups at Hollywood Center Studios, the new material was cut into the film by Lucas editors, including then-wife Marcia Lucas. The Cantina segment was enhanced by composer John Williams jazz instrumentals, featured on the album as Cantina Band. The anthology of intertwined short stories Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, explores the cantina and its clientele further. Mark Jonathan Davis, later of Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, made a song of Barry Manilows Copacabana, called Star Wars Cantina. Davis used the melody of that song, his lyrics are a rough outline of Star Wars Episodes IV through VI, Star Wars Cantina is often erroneously attributed to Yankovic. The song was not released on CD due to copyright complications, the musician Voltaire also did a parody on his album Ooky Spooky. Han shot first Star Wars, Databank

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George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Lucas wrote and directed THX1138, based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth, THX1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film, American Graffiti, inspired by his teen years in early 1960s Modesto, California, the film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Following the first Star Wars film, Lucas produced and co-wrote the following installments in the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, along with Steven Spielberg, Lucas co-created and wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. Lucas also produced and/or wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s, Lucas also returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, consisting of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. He later collaborated on the story for the Indiana Jones sequel Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, five of Lucass seven features are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is one of the American film industrys most financially successful filmmakers, Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era. Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas and he is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. Growing up, Lucas had a passion for cars and motor racing, on June 12,1962, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina, another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology and he also began shooting with an 8 mm camera, including filming car races. At this time, Lucas and his friend John Plummer became interested in Canyon Cinema, screenings of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Lucas and Plummer also saw classic European films of the time, including Jean-Luc Godards Breathless, François Truffauts Jules et Jim, thats when George really started exploring, Plummer said. Through his interest in racing, Lucas met renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, another race enthusiast. Wexler, later to work with Lucas on several occasions, was impressed by Lucas talent, George had a very good eye, and he thought visually, he recalled. Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood, and John Milius and he also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg

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Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars

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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983

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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis

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Extraterrestrial life (popular culture)
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Extraterrestrials, a common theme in modern science-fiction, also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata. An extraterrestrial or alien is any extraterrestrial lifeform, a lifeform that did not originate on Earth, the word extraterrestrial means outside Earth. The first published use of extraterrestrial as a noun occurred in 1956, gary Westfahl writes, Science fiction aliens are both metaphors and real possibilities. One can probe the nature of humanity with aliens that by contrast illustrate, thus, aliens will likely remain a central theme in science fiction until we actually encounter them. Cosmic pluralism, the assumption there are many inhabited worlds beyond the human sphere predates modernity. Other worlds are depicted in early works as the 10th-century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. In Johannes Keplers Somnium, published in 1634, the character Duracotus is transported to the moon by demons, even if much of the story is fantasy, the scientific facts about the moon and how the lunar environment has shaped its non-human inhabitants are science fiction. The didactic poet Henry More took up the theme of Cosmic pluralism of the Greek Democritus in Democritus Platonissans. In The Excursion David Mallet exclaimed, Ten thousand worlds blaze forth, stories written before the genre of science fiction had found its form. Closer to the age is J. -H. Rosny, who wrote the short story Les Xipéhuz, about an encounter with extraterrestrials who turns out to be a mineral life form impossible to communicate with. Authors such as H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, the notion surfaces in Ursula K. Le Guins Hainish novels and was introduced to justify the humanoid aliens of Star Trek in the Star Trek, another common idea is aliens who closely resemble animals. Weinbaums A Martian Odyssey encouraged writers to create genuinely unusual aliens, Olaf Stapledon also populated the universe with disparate aliens, including sentient stars, in Star Maker. Later, Hal Clement, a science fiction writer famed for strange but plausible worlds

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List of Star Wars races (A-E)
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The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by three sequels and three prequels. Many species of creatures are depicted. The Abyssin inhabit the planet Byss and they are a nomadic race, often described as brutish and violent. They stand approximately two meters tall and have an appearance, with long limbs and weathered skin. They also possess a single large slit-pupiled eye which dominates their greenish-tan foreheads, Abyssins do not take kindly to derogatory nicknames regarding their eye, such as monoc, one-eye, or cyclops. They are quick to anger, especially when taunted or insulted and they are known to look for conflict and rarely show restraint. All Abyssins have the ability to quickly and to regenerate body parts, which leads to their belief that change is impossible. Abyssins dislike blaster fire and space-battles, the Aleena are a short-bodied alien race native to the planet Aleen. They are characterized by their bodies and short limbs. They waddle when they walk, and are ungainly to look upon and their heads are dominated by a long, thin plate of body which extends back from the skull, and their faces are flat. Two small eyes sit over a wide mouth which is filled with short, Aleena are known for their quick-change metabolism, which helps them escape from sagcatchers on their home-world. Individuals are bred for their variation, another way they avoid becoming prey. As a people, the Aleena have a warrior tradition. They possess exceptional reflexes as well as a fast metabolism which allows them to food into energy very rapidly in order to escape predators on their harsh home planet. The Amanin, nicknamed Amanaman in some regions, are large aliens descended from planarian worms and they have long arms and a broad body, and their heads resemble a hooded cobras head, but with a humanoid face. They hail from Maridun, where prefer to travel in the trees, using their arms to swing among branches and they organize into small tribes that form war with good chiss parties to fight the other tribes for territory. They do not use technology and prefer to fight with spears and arrows and their reputation was even more so after they wiped out an entire stormtrooper division that had set up on their home planet. During and after the rule of the Empire, they sold their POWs into slavery and they are also popular as guards and bodyguards with the criminal elements of the galaxy

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Team America: World Police
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The title is derived from domestic and international political criticisms that the foreign policy of the United States frequently and unilaterally tries to police the world. The use of marionettes instead of actors in a film is a reference to Thunderbirds. The duo worked on the script with former South Park writer Brady for nearly two years, the film had a troubled time in production, with various problems regarding the marionettes, as well as the scheduling extremes of having the film come out in time. In addition, the filmmakers fought with the Motion Picture Association of America, the film was recut by a few seconds and rated R for graphic crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language - all involving puppets. The film premiered at the Denver Film Festival on October 14,2004 and it has received mostly positive reviews from critics and grossed over $52.1 million worldwide against its $32 million budget. Team America, World Police, a paramilitary force, has a home base located inside Mount Rushmore. The team is led by Spottswoode and a supercomputer named I. N. T. E. L. L. I. G. E. N. C. E, the team, however, regard this as a success. Carson proposes to Lisa, but a surviving terrorist shoots him dead, as a replacement, Spottswoode recruits Gary Johnston, a Broadway actor with college majors in Theater and World Languages. Unbeknownst to the team, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is supplying international terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, using his acting skills, Gary successfully infiltrates a terrorist group in Cairo, Egypt. The team manages to kill the terrorists and foil their plot, jackson, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. As the team following their victory, Gary tells Lisa about his childhood. While the two share some tender emotions and have sex, a group of terrorists blow up the Panama Canal as retaliation for what had happened in Cairo, the Film Actors Guild again blames Team America over the incident regarding the Panama Canal. Gary, realizing that his talents have once again resulted in tragedy. The original members depart for Derkaderkastan, but encounter terrorists and North Korean forces, filmmaker Michael Moore vengefully infiltrates the teams Mount Rushmore base and suicide bombs the area. In North Korea, Kim Jong-il hosts a ceremony, inviting the Film Actors Guild. Using the ceremony as a distraction, Kim Jong-il plans to detonate a series of bombs throughout the world. Succumbing to depression and alcoholism, Gary finds himself reminded of his responsibility by a speech from a drunken drifter. Upon returning to Mount Rushmore, he finds the area in ruins, though Spottswoode, after regaining Spottswoodes trust by giving him a blowjob and undergoing a one-day training course, Gary is sent to North Korea, where he uses his acting skills to free the other members

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Instrumental
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An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting. The music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments, if the instrumental section highlights the skill, musicality, and often the virtuosity of a particular performer, the section may be called a solo. If the instruments are percussion instruments, the interlude can be called a percussion interlude or percussion break and these interludes are a form of break in the song. One example of a genre in which both vocal/instrumental and solely instrumental songs are produced is blues, another example of a genre in popular culture is Hip Hop, Pop, and R&B. Many upcoming or rising artists in Hip Hop, Pop, and R&B will find an instrumental online on a website, like www. beatsbytoon. com, an instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a -1. The opposite of instrumental music, that is, music for voices alone, without any accompaniment instruments, is a cappella, an Italian phrase that means in the chapel. In early music, instruments such as trumpet and drums were considered outdoor instruments, a capella music exists in both Classical music choir pieces and in popular music styles such as doo wop groups and Barbershop quartets. Some recordings which include brief examples of the voice are typically considered instrumentals. An ominous statement at the end Inclusion of field recordings which may or may not contain non-lyrical words, a few songs categorized as instrumentals may even include actual vocals, if they appear only as a short part of an extended piece. Falling just outside that definition is Theme From Shaft by Isaac Hayes. com with a sample of each

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John Williams
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John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, Jurassic Park, Schindlers List, Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but two of his feature films. Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, with 50 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams score to 1977s Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry, for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowls Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, Williams composed the score for eight movies in the Top 20 highest-grossing films at the U. S. box office. John Towner Williams was born on February 8,1932 in Floral Park, New York, the son of Esther and Johnny Williams, Williams has said of his lineage, My father was a Maine man—we were very close. My fathers parents ran a department store in Bangor, Maine, people with those roots are not inclined to be lazy. In 1948, the Williams family moved to Los Angeles where John attended North Hollywood High School graduating in 1950 and he later attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Williams had originally briefly attended Los Angeles City College for one semester as the school had a Studio Jazz Band. In 1952, Williams was drafted into the U. S. Air Force, in 1955, following his Air Force service, Williams moved to New York City and entered The Juilliard School where he studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne. During this time Williams worked as a jazz pianist in the many jazz clubs. After moving to Los Angeles he began working as a session musician, Williams has two brothers, Donald and Jerry, both of whom work as percussionists in Los Angeles. After his studies at Juilliard, and the Eastman School of Music, Williams returned to Los Angeles, among other composers, Williams worked with Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, and Alfred Newman, and also with his fellow orchestrators Conrad Salinger and Bob Franklyn. Williams was also a studio pianist, performing on film scores by composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Williams recorded with Henry Mancini the film scores of 1959s Peter Gunn, 1962s Days of Wine and Roses, and 1963s Charade. Williamss first film composition was for the 1958 B movie Daddy-O and he soon gained notice in Hollywood for his versatility in composing jazz, piano, and symphonic music. Williams received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for 1967s Valley of the Dolls. Williams broke through to win his first Academy Award for his score in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof

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Daniel Keys Moran
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Daniel Keys Moran, also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer. Moran was born in Los Angeles to Richard Joseph Moran and Marilynn Joyce Moran and he has three sisters, Kari Lynn Moran, Jodi Anne Moran and Kathleen Moran. A native of Southern California, he lived in North Hollywood. DKM, his third wife Amy Stout-Moran, and their sons Richard Moran and Connor Moran, in early 2005 Keys Moran lost vision in one eye due to wet macular degeneration. Moran currently maintains a blog, and has in the past maintained two web sites. Queen Of Angels was his official web site, and Lakers Talk was a fansite for the Los Angeles Lakers, much of his work is available for sanctioned free download at the Daniel Keys Moran Mirror. Moran had ambitious plans for a 33 volume series, The Tales of the Continuing Time, War, Book One, The Big Boost, the first volume of a projected trilogy, was published on March 28,2011. Moran has also authored short stories and essays that were featured on National Public Radio. The multi-verse in which most of DKM’s work is set, “The Gray Maelstrom” — Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Vol.7 No.2 February 1983, “All the Time in the World” — Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. The Armageddon Blues — Bantam Spectra paperback, Quiet Vision hardcover ISBN 978-1-57646-576-9, tradepaper ISBN 1-57646-637-X. “Realtime” with Gladys Prebehalla — Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, vol.8 No.8 August 1984. The Ring — Bantom Doubleday hardcover, jacket design, Jamie S. Warren. based in part on a screenplay by William Stewart and Joanne Nelson. Emerald Eyes — Bantam Spectra paperback, cover art, Paul and Stephen Youll. Quiet Vision hardcover ISBN 1-57646-577-2, tradepaper ISBN 1-57646-638-8, the Long Run — Bantam Spectra paperback. Quiet Vision hardcover ISBN 1-57646-578-0, tradepaper ISBN 1-57646-639-6, Emerald Eyes • “The Star” • The Long Run — Queen Of Angels limited edition hardcover omnibus. “The Star” is a new story set between the two novels, and is also included in the Quiet Vision printings of Emerald Eyes. The Last Dancer — Bantam Spectra paperback, War, Book One, The Big Boost — ebook from fs& in multiple formats

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Luke Skywalker
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Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. The character, portrayed by Mark Hamill, is an important figure in the Rebel Alliances struggle against the Galactic Empire. The now non-canon Star Wars expanded universe depicts him as a powerful Jedi Master, husband of Mara Jade, in 2015, the character was selected by Empire magazine as the 50th greatest movie character of all time. On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania. com ranked the character at number 14, Luke Skywalker was initially called Anakin Starkiller, and went through multiple design changes. The character was at one point designed as a 60-year-old grizzled war hero, later as a Jedi Master, the last name Starkiller remained for the first few months of production, Hamill on-camera using the name Luke Starkiller the sole time he referred to himself during filming. Starkiller was dropped due to what Lucas called unpleasant connotations, after Hamill was involved in a car accident, the Wampa attack at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back was written in to explain his facial injuries. An alternative ending pitched by George Lucas for Return of the Jedi was Luke assuming his fathers role as Darth Vader after the latters death, though Lawrence Kasdan favored the idea, Lucas ultimately declined, since the films were made for children. Another conclusion to the featured the character disappearing into the wilderness akin to Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns. During the filming of the original Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas informed Hamill that he would be needed to reprise the role when he was middle aged, Lucas further explained that his role as Luke would be handing Excalibur to the next generation. Hamill had no reaction at the time, as he thought of making Star Wars films decades in the future as an abstract concept, Hamill learned of the sequel trilogy over the summer of 2012 at a Star Wars celebration during lunch where Lucas told him one was in development. Hamill recalled shaving his beard to portray The Trickster in The Flash, Hamill attended meetings for script readings, and helped conceal Lukes role in the film, instead of dialogue, he read stage directions. Abrams said it allowed him to remain involved and that his reading helped make an experience for everyone. In the prequel film, Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Luke is born to Senator Padmé Amidala along with his twin sister, Luke Skywalker lives on a moisture farm on Tatooine with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. Luke takes his first steps toward his destiny when he buys the droids C-3PO, when R2-D2 goes missing, Luke goes out to find him and encounters Obi-Wan Kenobi, an old hermit. Luke discovers that R2-D2 contains a message for Obi-Wan from Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan beseeching him to help her defeat the Galactic Empire, Obi-Wan says that he and Lukes father were once Jedi Knights, and that his father was murdered by a traitorous Jedi named Darth Vader. Obi-Wan presents Luke with his fathers lightsaber and offers to him to Alderaan and train him in the ways of the Force. Luke changes his mind when he returns home to find that Imperial stormtroopers have killed his aunt, Obi-Wan deactivates the tractor beam and he later sacrifices his life in a duel with Vader so that Luke and his friends can board the Falcon and escape. During the films battle scene, Luke joins the Rebel Alliance in attacking the Death Star

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Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Obi-Wan Ben Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor in the films. In the original trilogy, he is a mentor to Luke Skywalker, in the prequel trilogy, he is a master and friend to Anakin Skywalker. He is frequently featured as a character in various other Star Wars media. Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced in the original Star Wars living as the hermit Ben Kenobi on the planet Tatooine, when Luke Skywalker and the droid C-3PO wander off in search of the lost droid R2-D2, Ben rescues them from a band of native Tusken Raiders. At his home, R2-D2 plays Ben a recording of Princess Leia which explains that R2-D2 contains the plans for the Death Star, Leia asks him to deliver the droid and the plans safely to the planet Alderaan in order to help the Rebel Alliance. He gives Luke his fathers lightsaber and asks Luke to accompany him to Alderaan, Luke declines, but promises to take Obi-Wan as far as Anchorhead Station. After Luke finds his uncle and aunt killed by Imperial troops, he agrees to go with Obi-Wan to Alderaan, in the spaceport city Mos Eisley, Obi-Wan uses the Force to trick Imperial troops into letting them through a military checkpoint. They enter a cantina and make a deal with two smugglers, Han Solo and Chewbacca, to fly them to Alderaan in their ship. During the journey, Obi-Wan begins instructing Luke in lightsaber training and he suddenly becomes weak and tells Luke of a great disturbance in the Force. Emerging from hyperspace, the party finds that Alderaan has been destroyed, the trio chase the TIE fighter to the Death Star, and subsequently get caught in the Death Stars tractor beam. On board the Death Star, Obi-Wan shuts down the tractor beam, Obi-Wan uses the duel to distract Vader as Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca escape to the Falcon. Although Vader strikes Obi-Wan down, his body mysteriously vanishes the moment he dies, at the climax of the film during the Rebel attack on the Death Star, Obi-Wan speaks to Luke through the Force to help him destroy the Imperial station. In The Empire Strikes Back, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears several times as a spirit through the Force, on the planet Hoth, he appears to instruct Luke to go to the planet Dagobah to find the exiled Jedi Master Yoda. Despite Yodas skepticism, Obi-Wan convinces his old master to continue Lukes training and he appears later to beseech Luke not to leave Dagobah to try to rescue his friends on Cloud City, although Luke ignores this advice. In Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan again appears to Luke after Yodas death on Dagobah, Obi-Wan acknowledges that Darth Vader is indeed Lukes father, revealed by Vader in the previous film and confirmed by Yoda on his deathbed, and also reveals that Leia is Lukes twin sister. After the second Death Star is destroyed and the Empire defeated, Obi-Wan appears at the celebration in the Ewok village, alongside the spirits of Yoda, in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears as the Jedi Padawan of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He accompanies his master in negotiations with the Trade Federation, which is blockading the planet Naboo with a fleet of spaceships and their ship is damaged in the escape, however, and they are forced to land on Tatooine, where they discover a young Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon senses Anakins extraordinarily strong link to the Force and brings the boy to Coruscant to begin Jedi training, when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan return to Naboo to defeat the Trade Federation, they are met by Sith Lord Darth Maul

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Rick Baker (makeup artist)
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Richard A. Rick Baker is an American special make-up effects creator, make-up artist, and special effects supervisor, mostly known for his creature effects, he was also a creature designer. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, Baker was born in Binghamton, New York, to Doris and Ralph B. He is married and has two daughters, as a teen, Baker began creating artificial body parts in his own kitchen. He also appeared briefly in the fan production The Night Turkey, bakers first professional job was as an assistant to prosthetic makeup effects veteran Dick Smith on the film The Exorcist. Baker received the inaugural Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for his work on An American Werewolf in London and he also created the werecat creature Michael Jackson transforms into in the music video Thriller. Subsequently, Baker has been nominated for the Best Makeup Oscar ten more times, winning on seven occasions and he was married to Elaine Melba Parkyn for ten years. Baker claims that his work on Harry and the Hendersons is one of his proudest achievements, on October 3,2009, he received the Jack Pierce – Lifetime Achievement Award title of the Chiller-Eyegore Awards. He was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University San Francisco in 2008 and he also contributes commentaries to the web series Trailers From Hell for trailers about horror and science fiction films. Baker received the 2485th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 30,2012, the star is located in front of the Guinness World Records Museum. Baker announced his retirement on May 28,2015, First of all and its also starting to take away the makeup part. The time is right, I am 64 years old, I like to do things right, and they wanted cheap and fast. That is not what I want to do, so I just decided it is time to get out. I would consider designing and consulting on something, but I don’t think I will have a working studio anymore. Baker played the role in the 1976 remake of King Kong. In the 2005 remake, he had a cameo as the pilot and gunner who shot down Kong. A

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Phil Tippett
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Phil Tippett is an American movie director and a visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation. Tippett was born in Berkeley, California, when he was seven, Tippett saw Ray Harryhausens special effects classic, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and his lifes direction was set. Tippett completed a degree in art at the University of California, Irvine. When Star Wars was being released on theatres, in 1977, Tippett was approached by Joe Dante and that year,1978, Tippett headed the ILM animation department with Jon Berg for The Empire Strikes Back. For this film, Tippett co-developed the animation technique called go motion to animate the sinister AT-AT Imperial Walkers, in 1981 Tippett continued using go motion for Dragonslayer, and received his first Academy Award nomination for the extraordinarily realistic dragon animation. By 1983, Tippett led the famed Lucasfilm creature shop for Return of the Jedi for which he was awarded his first Oscar in 1984. In 1984 Tippett Studio was born when Tippett left ILM and set up a studio in his garage to create a 10-minute experimental film called Prehistoric Beast, the realism of the dinosaurs it depicted and the films reflection of contemporary scientific theory led to the 1985 CBS animated documentary Dinosaur. The next year, in 1986, Dinosaur, granted Tippett Studio its first award, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, for the animated dinosaur sequences. In 1986 producer Jon Davison hired Tippett to create the animated sequences for RoboCop. The ED-209 stop-motion model was animated by Tippett but designed by Craig Hayes, as one of the setpieces of the movie, the ED-209s look and animated sequences were under the close supervision of director Paul Verhoeven, who sometimes acted out the robots movements himself. ED209 was voiced by producer Jon Davison and this project became the start of a long and successful collaboration between Davies and Tippet. He also modeled the Dark Overlord creatures seen in Howard the Duck, in 1991, Tippett was hired to create the dinosaur effects for the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jurassic Park using his go motion technique made famous in the film Dragonslayer. However, Dennis Muren and his CGI team at Industrial Light & Magic created animated test footage of a T-Rex that Spielberg loved, when Tippett was told that Jurassic Park dinosaurs would be computer-generated, he was shocked, exclaiming Ive just become extinct. Tippett supervised both the Tippett Studio and ILM animators, resulting in realistic digital dinosaurs that breathe, flex, twitch and his effort earned him a second Oscar. Tippett is also the subject of an internet meme regarding his credit in the film. Implying that because he didnt supervise the dinosaurs properly, he was responsible for the on-screen deaths, mashable interviewed Tippett in April 2014 about this meme, which he called beyond silly and such a waste of time. In 1995, Tippett Studio was hired to create the giant, Tippett marshaled a team of 100 animators, model makers, computer artists and technicians and expanded his all-CGI facility. The excellence of this resulted in Tippetts sixth nomination in 1997 for an Academy Award

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Hasbro
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/ˈhæzbroʊ/ is an American multinational toy and board game company. Hasbro is the third largest toy maker in the world with revenues of approximately $4.45 billion, Hasbro acquired the trademarks and products of Kenner, Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, among others. Among its toy and game products are the iconic Monopoly board game, Joe figurine, Furby electronic stuffed animal, Transformers mechanical toys and My Little Pony. The Hasbro brand also spawned TV shows, such as Family Game Night on the Discovery Family network, the corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The majority of its products are manufactured in East Asia, in 1923, three brothers named Herman, Hillel and Henry Hassenfeld founded Hassenfeld Brothers, a company selling textile remnants, in Providence, Rhode Island. Over the next two decades, the company expanded to produce pencil cases and school supplies, in 1926, Hassenfeld Brothers was incorporated, with Hillel leaving for another textile business while Henry took charge of the corporation. With cost of rising and their pencil supplier making pencil cases. In the 1940s, Hassenfeld Brothers produced doctor and nurse kits, its first toys, with Hillels death in 1943, Henry Hassenfeld became CEO while his son, Merrill, became president. The company entered the fields during World War II to support its toy line. Hassenfeld Brothers first toy hit was Mr. Potato Head, which the company purchased from George Lerner in 1952, the toy was a smash success. In 1954, the became a Disney major licensee. In 1960, Henry died and Merrill took over the parent company and his older brother Harold ran the pencil-making business, Hassenfeld Brothers expanded to Canada with Hassenfeld Brothers Ltd. in 1961. The company was approached in 1963 to license a toy based on The Lieutenant, instead, in 1964, Hassenfeld Brothers produced the G. I. Joe toy, which they termed an action figure in order to market the toy to boys who wouldnt want to play with dolls, Joe accounted for two-thirds of Hassenfelds sales. Having previously sold toys under the Hasbro trade name, the company shortened its name to Hasbro Industries in 1968, with the unpopular Vietnam War at its height in 1969, Hasbro redesigned GI Joe to be less militaristic and more adventure oriented. Its promotional efforts included the catchphrase Boy Oh Boy and its A Hasbro Toy. in television commercials and print ads. Also in 1969 Hasbro bought Burt Claster Enterprises, which produced Romper Room and had just begun a Romper Room toy line, a month-long teamsters strike and far eastern supplier troubles caused the company to have a $1 million loss for the year. By 1975, the company had ended the nursery chain, Hasbro also entered the cookware field with the Galloping Gourmet line based on a contemporary television cooking show

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Action figure
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An action figure is a poseable character figurine, made of plastic or other materials, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, video game, or television program. These action figures are usually marketed toward boys and adult collectors, according to a study in Sweden, action figures with traditional masculine traits primarily target boys. While most commonly marketed as a toy, the action figure has gained wide acceptance as an adult collector item. In such a case, the item may be produced and designed on the assumption it will be solely for display. The term action figure was first coined by Hasbro in 1964, joe figure to boys who would not play with dolls. Joe was initially a military-themed 11. 5-inch figure proposed by marketing and it featured changeable clothes with various uniforms to suit different purposes. In a move that would create global popularity for this type of toy, the Japanese had at least two examples where a Hasbro licensee also issued sublicenses for related products. For example, Palitoy issued a sublicense to Tsukuda, a company in Japan, to manufacture, takara also issued a sublicense to Medicom for the manufacture of action figures. Takara, still under license by Hasbro to make and sell G. I, the Microman line was also novel in its use of interchangeable parts. This laid the foundation for both the action figure size and the transforming robot toy. These toys also featured parts, with emphasis placed on the transformation and combination of the characters. In 1971, Mego began licensing and making American Marvel and DC comic book superhero figures, the widespread success of Kenners Star Wars 3-3/4 toy line made the newer, smaller size the industry standard. Instead of a character with outfits that changed for different applications. Led by Star Wars-themed sales, collectible action figures quickly became a secondary business for movie studios. From 1972 to 1986 there was a line of Big Jim action figures produced by Mattel. The 1980s spawned all sorts of popular action figure lines, many based on cartoon series, some of the most successful to come about were Masters of the Universe, G. I. Joe, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters and Super Powers Collection and this led to the Micro Change line of toys, objects that could transform into robots. As the 80s were ending, more and more collectors started to surface, buying up the toys to keep in their packaging for display purposes

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Walmart
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. doing business as Walmart, is an American multinational retailing corporation that operates as a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, as of January 31,2017, Walmart has 11,695 stores and clubs in 28 countries, under a total of 63 banners. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and it operates as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, as Asda in the United Kingdom, as the Seiyu Group in Japan, and as Best Price in India. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, and Canada and it also owns and operates the Sams Club retail warehouses. Walmart is the worlds largest company by revenue, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2016 and it is a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family. Sam Waltons heirs own over 50 percent of Walmart through their company, Walton Enterprises. Walmart is also one of the worlds most valuable companies by market value, in 2016,62.3 percent of Walmarts US$478.614 billion sales came from its U. S. operations. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972, by 1988, Walmart was the most profitable retailer in the U. S. and by October 1989, it had become the largest in terms of revenue. A Walmart in York, Pennsylvania opened in October 1990, bringing the store to the Northeast. In 1945, a businessman and a former J. C. Penney employee, Sam Walton and his primary focus was on selling products at low prices to get higher-volume sales at a lower profit margin, portraying it as a crusade for the consumer. He experienced setbacks, because the price and branch purchase were unusually high. He passed on the savings in the product pricing, sales increased 45 percent in his first year of ownership to US$105,000 in revenue, which increased to US$140,000 the next year and US$175,000 the year after that. Within the fifth year, the store was generating US$250,000 in revenue, when the lease for the location expired, Walton was unable to reach an agreement for renewal, so he opened up a new store at 105 N. Main Street in Bentonville, naming it Waltons Five and Dime and that store is now the Walmart Museum. On July 2,1962, Walton opened the first Walmart Discount City store at 719 W. Walnut Street in Rogers, within its first five years, the company expanded to 24 stores across Arkansas and reached US$12.6 million in sales. In 1968, it opened its first stores outside Arkansas, in Sikeston, Missouri and Claremore, the company was incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on October 31,1969. In 1970, it opened its office and first distribution center in Bentonville. It had 38 stores operating with 1,500 employees and sales of US$44.2 million and it began trading stock as a publicly held company on October 1,1970, and was soon listed on the New York Stock Exchange

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R2-D2
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R2-D2 is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, who appears in the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, the sequel trilogy, and Rogue One. A small astromech droid, R2-D2 is a character and appears in all Star Wars films to date. Throughout the course of the films, he joins or supports Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, in the sequel trilogy, Baker was credited as consultant for the The Force Awakens, however Jimmy Vee also co-performed the character in some scenes. Vee later took over the beginning in The Last Jedi. R2-D2s sounds and vocal effects were created by Ben Burtt, R2-D2 was designed in artwork by Ralph McQuarrie, co-developed by John Stears and built by Tony Dyson. Lucas and artist Ralph McQuarrie also drew inspiration from the robots Huey, Dewey, the name is said to derive from when Lucas was making one of his earlier films, American Graffiti. Sound editor Walter Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for the droid, Murch asked for Reel 2, Dialog Track 2, in the abbreviated form R-2-D-2. R2-D2 stands for Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2, according to a Star Wars encyclopedia published after the release of the film Star Wars. Tony Dyson, owner of the special effects studio The White Horse Toy Company, was commissioned to fabricate the design, two were used by Baker, and two were stunt double models made for the scene where the droid was shot from the swamp onto the shore on Dagobah. In Star Wars, both R2-D2 and C-3PO are introduced on board the Tantive IV, along with Princess Leia of Alderaan, Leia inserts into R2-D2 an information disc containing the plans for the Death Star battle station, and encodes a distress message on the droids holographic projector. The droids then escape in a pod that crashes on Tatooine near Obi-Wan Kenobis desert abode, R2-D2 and C-3PO are then abducted by Jawas and bought by Owen Lars, step-uncle of Luke Skywalker. That night, R2-D2 leaves the farm to seek out Obi-Wan, soon, by way of fate, Luke is forced to leave Tatooine with Obi-Wan, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, and they attempt to deliver R2-D2 to the Rebel Alliance. Along the way, they are pulled in by the Death Stars tractor beam, R2-D2 delivers the plans to the Rebel Alliance, and serves as Lukes astromech droid during the attack on the station. R2-D2 is severely damaged during the battle, but is restored before the ceremony at the end of the film. In The Empire Strikes Back, R2-D2 accompanies Luke to Dagobah, and later to Cloud City and he also manages to fix the Millennium Falcons hyperdrive, resulting in a last-minute escape from Imperial forces. In Return of the Jedi, R2-D2 plays a role in rescuing Luke, Leia. He later joins the Rebel strike team on Endor and he is badly damaged during the fight between the Imperial troops and the Rebels, but is repaired in time for the celebration marking the second Death Stars destruction and the end of the Empire. The sole survivor of the four, R2-D2 becomes part of Qui-Gon Jinns party on Tatooine and meets C-3PO, later still, he serves as the astromech droid for Anakins starfighter during the Battle of Naboo

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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US

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London Symphony Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1904, is the oldest of Londons symphony orchestras. It was set up by a group of players who left Henry Woods Queens Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services, the LSO itself later introduced a similar rule for its members. From the outset, the LSO was organised on co-operative lines and this practice continued for the orchestras first four decades. The profit-sharing principle was abandoned in the era as a condition of receiving public subsidy for the first time. In the 1950s the orchestra debated whether to concentrate on work at the expense of symphony concerts. By the 1960s the LSO had recovered its position, which it has retained subsequently. In 1966, to perform alongside it in works, the orchestra established the LSO Chorus, originally a mix of professional and amateur singers. As a self-governing body, the orchestra selects the conductors with whom it works, at some stages in its history, it has dispensed with a principal conductor and worked only with guests. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in the Barbican Centre in the City of London, among its programmes there have been large-scale festivals celebrating composers as diverse as Berlioz, Mahler and Bernstein. At the turn of the century there were no permanent salaried orchestras in London. The main orchestras were those of Covent Garden, the Philharmonic Society and he would then engage another player to deputise at him for the original concert and the rehearsals for it. The treasurer of the Philharmonic Society described the system thus, A and he sends B to the first rehearsal. B, without knowledge or consent, sends C to the second rehearsal. Not being able to play at the concert, C sends D, in 1904, the manager of the Queens Hall, Robert Newman and the conductor of his promenade concerts, Henry Wood, agreed that they could no longer tolerate the deputy system. After a rehearsal in which Wood was faced with dozens of unfamiliar faces in his own orchestra, Newman came to the platform and announced, Gentlemen, in future there will be no deputies. Orchestral musicians were not highly paid, and removing their chances of better-paid engagements permitted by the deputy system was a financial blow to many of them. The principal movers were three players and a trumpeter, John Solomon. Busby organised a meeting at St. Andrews Hall, not far from the Queens Hall, invitations were sent to present and former members of the Queens Hall Orchestra

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Star Wars and other Galactic Funk
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Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk is a disco album by Meco released in 1977. The album uses various musical themes from the Star Wars soundtrack arranged as instrumental disco music, a single from the album, Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 1,1977, holding to that position for two weeks. The album was released on disc with two additional versions of the single. Electronic musical effects were created on a Buchla synthesizer by Suzanne Ciani

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Ash (band)
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Ash is a Northern Irish alternative rock band, formed in Downpatrick in 1992 by vocalist and guitarist Tim Wheeler, bassist Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray. As a three-piece, they released mini-album Trailer in 1994, followed by 1977 in 1996 and this 1996 release was named by NME as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. After the success of their debut the band recruited Charlotte Hatherley as a guitarist and vocalist. After narrowly avoiding bankruptcy the band released Free All Angels in 2001, after five conventional albums the band released 26 singles in The A-Z Series in 2009, one every two weeks. The band have had one silver, two gold and two platinum-selling records in the United Kingdom, as well as 18 songs in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, in 2015, they released a sixth studio album, entitled Kablammo. They were associated with Britpop, though as that musical movement emphasised Britishness which is a state in Northern Ireland. Ash officially formed in 1992, reportedly having taken the name from the first word they liked in the dictionary, prior to this, Wheeler and Hamilton were in an Iron Maiden cover band called Vietnam, which had formed in 1989. The new band created three demo tapes that year – Solar Happy in June, Shed in September, and the Home Demo in November. In 1993 the band recorded the Garage Girl demo tape, which featured Jack Names the Planets and Intense Thing, taken from Shed, and new tracks, including Petrol. Following Garage Girl, Ash released a demo tape, Pipe Smokin Brick later that year. Downpatrick musician Ray Valentine recorded Ashs demos at his studio, Cosmic Rays, at that time, the band were known as Genuine Real Teenagers, because they were so young when recording their early material. The demo tapes did not gain attention at that time. Taverner put up the money to press 1,000 7″ copies of Jack Names the Planets on his own LaLaLand record label, Taverner subsequently became the bands full-time manager. Ash released the album, Trailer, in October 1994. Airplay by Steve Lamacq followed on BBC Radio 1 and the single was followed by Petrol and Uncle Pat. In 1995, Ash left school and released the breakthrough singles Kung Fu, Girl From Mars, the movie Angus was released, which featured two Ash songs, Jack Names the Planets and Kung Fu, and served to introduce Ash to American audiences. The band had offered two other tracks that were not used, as well as Pansy Divisions Deep Water, which made the soundtrack but was cut from the due to time constraints. Ash marked the end of their year by releasing a cover of The Temptations Get Ready

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B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record

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Girl From Mars
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Girl from Mars is a single by Northern Irish band Ash, the second to be released from the album 1977. It was released on 31 July 1995 on CD, a 7 vinyl, and as a cassette. Girl from Mars was Ashs first Top 40 single, reaching number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, number 16 on the Irish Singles Chart, and the first single to bring the band to mainstream prominence. The song was written by Tim Wheeler when he was sixteen, the track has been used by NASA as the hold music on their telephone lines. Two different videos exists for the single, the first, the UK promo video, was directed by Peter Christopherson and is described by the band as a cross between Give It Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Natrel Plus TV ad. The band hated the video so much that when the time came to release the song in America, directed by Jesse Peretz, the video sees Ash playing the song as part of an art exhibition, and mesmerizing a small girl watching the band. CD/7/Cassette Girl From Mars Astral Conversations with Toulouse-Lautrec Cantina Band Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Asylum Street Spankers
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The Asylum Street Spankers, formed in Austin, Texas in 1994, were a band whose music was rooted in early 20th century American musical forms. In 2006, the bands satirical anti-war video Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV surpassed 1 million hits in two months on YouTube, in January 2011 the band won The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Gospel category for Gods Favorite Band. The band dissolved after a tour in spring 2011. Founded by Christina Marrs, Wammo and Guy Forsyth after a party at the Dabbs Hotel along the Llano River in Texas in 1994, the band began by busking on the streets of Austin and playing for tips in bars. The band developed a raucous and irreverent sound, focusing on musicianship, several early members were actors and nearly all members have been multi-instrumentalists. Until 2004 they played most of their concerts without any amplification and this resulted in a heightened theatricality to the shows. The band derived its name from Austins Guadalupe Street, where they would often busk, at one time Guadalupe Street was nicknamed Asylum Street because it led to a state psychiatric hospital. The term spanker is an old term for one who plays his instrument vigorously and proficiently. With the departure of Guy Forsyth in 1997 the Spankers began playing original songs. By 1999 only Marrs and Wammo remained of the original line-up, also in 1999, Marrs and Wammo founded Spanks-a-Lot Records to release their music. With complete creative control, the band increasing the frequency of their sales. Spanks-a-Lot has released two DVDs documenting the live show. In fall 2006, the bands anti-war satire video Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV, in January 2008 the group premiered its stage show What. And Give Up Show Biz. off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre, in January 2011, Asylum Street Spankers won The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Gospel category for Gods Favorite Band. After the band broke up in 2010, the members announced one last tour,9 months in 50 cities. Down to one founding member, the built an new show around Marrs, Newman. The Spanks for Everything Farewell Tour concluded with a series of shows in Austin on April 20–23,2011. In March 2011, the band raised over $20,000 from fans in order to create a DVD retrospective, in April 2014 an album with previous unreleased recordings of their last shows The Last Laugh was released

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Paul (film)
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Paul is a 2011 British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The film is about two science fiction geeks who meet an extraterrestrial being, voiced by Seth Rogen, with a sarcastic manner and they help the alien to escape the Secret Service agents pursuing him, so that he can return to his home planet. The film contains references to other science fiction films, especially those of Steven Spielberg. Paul was released on 14 February 2011 in the United Kingdom, critical reaction to the film was generally positive. The film earned $98 million on a $40.67 million budget, while driving on a remote desert highway at night, after a tense situation with some rednecks in a diner, Graeme and Clive observe a car driving erratically and then crash. They stop to investigate and offer assistance to the driver, who turns out to be an alien named Paul, Clive faints, but Graeme agrees to assist Paul and gives him a ride. Later, United States Secret Service Agent Zoil arrives at the car crash site and informs his unseen female superior, the Big Guy and she sends two inept rookies, Haggard and OReilly, to assist Zoil. Graeme, Clive and Paul camp at an RV park run by two Christian fundamentalists, one-eyed Ruth Buggs and her father, Moses, upon Ruth discovering Paul the next day, the three are forced to take her with them. During an argument about her religion, Paul transfers his knowledge to her, after which Ruth realises that everything she was raised to believe is questionable. Paul later uses his powers to cure Ruths blinded eye and convinces her to moderate her fundamentalist beliefs. The fugitives stop at a bar and Ruth tries to call Moses, the group escapes when Paul terrifies the rednecks into fainting. Later, at another RV park, Ruth is questioned by Agent Zoil, released, she and Graeme retrieve Clive and Paul, who narrowly escape Haggard and OReilly. Frustrated, Zoil orders Haggard and OReilly to return to base, the group soon arrive at a house owned by Tara, who rescued Paul when he first crashed on Earth, and as a result of no one believing her story, has spent her life as a pariah. As she makes tea for her visitors, Haggard, OReilly, the fugitives flee, but OReilly shoots at them, igniting gas from Taras stove and destroying her house. OReilly is apparently killed in the explosion, Haggard pursues and catches up to the RV. Due to an error in judgement, Haggard drives off a cliff and is killed, Zoil reassures the Big Guy that he will have Paul within the hour, but she is tired of waiting and informs Zoil that she has ordered a military response. Paul, Graeme, Clive, Ruth and Tara arrive at Devils Tower National Monument, a helicopter suddenly arrives with agents and The Big Guy. Zoil then appears and starts a stand-off, disabling the agents, secretly, Zoil is Pauls friend and was attempting to aid the escape under cover of capturing Paul

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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker

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Wookieepedia
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The name Wookieepedia is a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia. The logo, too, is a visual pun showing the incomplete second Death Star as opposed to Wikipedias incomplete jigsaw logo and it is a fan-built version of the Holocron, a database maintained by Lucasfilm to track everything in the Star Wars universe and ensure continuity within it. Wookieepedia was conceived by Steven Greenwood and created at the request of hosting site Wikia by Chad Barbry, Barbry also conceived the name Wookiepedia, which was later respelled W-O-O-K-I-E-E-P-E-D-I-A. On March 4,2005, Wookieepedia was launched at Wikia, Wookieepedia is the most-visited wiki hosted by Wikia as of April 2005. On November 28,2005, Wookieepedia was selected as the Sci Fi Channels Sci Fi Site of the Week, in January 2006, the site was featured as the Wikia of the Month. Wikia hosts Star Wars wikis in many languages, and Wookieepedia also coordinates its efforts with the German language wiki called Jedipedia. net. A2014 April Fools joke was posted on the site involving alien breasts, fans have criticized the administrators and how the content is circulated. Some have even gone so far as to say it is a rather alienating wiki given its appeal being centered on only main Star Wars fans if nothing more. Criticism has also directed towards the choosing of bureaucrats as well as the growing amount of hostility and immaturity in their forums. In April 2014, Wookieepedia drew some controversy within the Star Wars fan community for posting a satirical article on breasts as its April Fools feature article. Critics regarded the article as misogynistic and in bad taste, some fans who havent cared for Wookiepedia have even defected to going to the Star Wars Uncyclopedia equivalent Darthipedia as well. Media related to Wookieepedia at Wikimedia Commons Official website on Wikia Wookieepedia on WikiIndex

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List of Star Wars characters
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This list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon. C-3PO and R2-D2 are the characters to appear in all films to date

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Admiral Ackbar
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Admiral Gial Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. A member of the amphibious Mon Calamari species, Ackbar was the foremost military commander of the Rebel Alliance who led combat operations against the Galactic Empire. Ackbar played a role in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. He was portrayed in the film by puppeteer Timothy D. Rose, Ackbar was voiced by Erik Bauersfeld, who made up the voice he believed matched the character after looking at a photo of Ackbar. The Ackbar character has been received positively by critics and fans, which he says during a scene in Return of the Jedi, has become a popular Internet meme. Ackbars first name, Gial, was not established until the April 2012 release of the Star Wars reference book The Essential Guide to Warfare, Admiral Ackbar was designed for the film Return of the Jedi, the final entry in the original Star Wars trilogy. However, before the May 1983 debut of film, the character made his first chronological appearance in a series of Star Wars newspaper comic strips by Archie Goodwin. There he was portrayed as the leader of the alien species Mon Calamari, the Mon Calamari are a species of fish-like, amphibious humanoids with salmon-colored skin, webbed hands, high-domed heads, and large fish-like eyes. Ackbars back story was not explained in Return of the Jedi, Ackbar was born on the planet Dac, a world almost entirely covered by water, where his species built giant floating cities. The peaceful Ackbar was the leader of his town, Coral Depths City. Despite the Mon Calamaris attempts to make peace, the Imperial forces destroyed several of their cities, stole their technology, Ackbar was one of the first to be enslaved, and was eventually presented as an interpreter and personal servant to Grand Moff Tarkin. Ackbar was freed from captivity during an attempt by Rebel forces to capture Tarkin. Starting with the rank of Rebel commander, Ackbar helped design the B-wing, a line of starfighters. His responsibilities kept growing until Mon Mothma promoted him to commander of the entire Rebel fleet and head of military operations, as well as one of her top two advisers. When Rebel spies discovered plans for a partially constructed second Death Star, Ackbar, Ackbar personally led the assault from his flagship, the Mon Calamari cruiser Home One. The attack did not go as planned, however, because the Imperial forces were expecting the assault and had in fact allowed the Death Star plans to fall into Rebel hands to lead them into a trap. The Imperials launched a counterattack against the Rebel fleet with TIE starfighters. Ackbar initially called for a retreat, but Calrissian convinced him to move forward with the attack

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Cad Bane
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Cad Bane is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy as a recurring antagonist voiced by Corey Burton in Star Wars, The Clone Wars. The character is a cold and manipulative bounty hunter from the planet Duro, the character was created for the 2008 Star Wars, The Clone Wars television series set during the prequel trilogy. The season one finale Hostage Crisis director Giancarlo Volpe compared Cad Bane to another Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett stating, The crew loves Cad Bane and he brings a serious bad-ass sensibility to Star Wars. Hes a lethal and ruthless bounty hunter, and you see that right away in the episode, unlike Boba Fett, Cad doesnt take prisoners. Originally, supervising director Dave Filoni and series writer Henry Gilroy planned to create the Durge character that was introduced in the 2003 micro-series. Durge would instead be redesigned as a character but this exploration was short lived after the suggestion of series producer. These characters Western influences help to bring Bane to life while still containing the features of the Duros species in the Star Wars universe with his own original characterization, burtons voice would then be modified on the computer by the series sound production team. Something you notice about George Lucas after a while is that hell mention a name like Mace Windu in a version of Star Wars, and then it pops up in 1999. So, this, I guess might have been an idea George had for the character Cad Bane way back when, and now finally hes getting around to bringing him to the screen in The Clone Wars. Cad Bane first appears in the season one finale Hostage Crisis, in the second season, Cad Bane is contacted by Darth Sidious for a special assignment, the capture of a Holocron from inside the Jedi Temple. Bane finds himself in a struggle for the stolen Holocron as Skywalker. He is briefly captured before leading Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu into a trap in his headquarters, during the fourth season, Cad Bane is revealed to be in a Republic prison. He is then hired by fellow convict Moralo Eval for a job by Count Dooku to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine on Naboo, however, Kenobi poses as bounty hunter Rako Hardeen and manages to foil the plot even though Dooku escapes while Bane was arrested. Bane does not appear in the fifth season, Cad Bane has been featured in two Hasbro toys concerning himself, his blaster and his ship respectively, as well as one involving him merged with his ship in a crossover for Transformers. Both Cad Bane and his speeder were included as part of the Lego Star Wars toy line, in 2009, UGO Networks ran a feature on Cad Bane, noting his cool looks and calling him quintessentially cold, cruel and calculating. IGN listed him as the 31st top Star Wars character, praising his first impression and saying his creators succeeded in introducing an inarguably cool, IGN also noted he continued to be an excellent foil to the main protagonists in his later appearances. IGNs Eric Goldman said that Bane was an attempt at creating a new ongoing villain. Goldman also called Banes introduction and his torture of Bolla Ropal two of The Clone Warss most darkest moments, adding that Bane lived up to the hype that surrounded him in his introduction

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Darth Bane
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Darth Bane is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Darth Banes only on-screen appearance happens when he appears as a vision to Jedi master Yoda, in the last episode of the animated series Star Wars, The Clone Wars, he was voiced by Mark Hamill. Sith and the novels Darth Bane, Path of Destruction, Darth Bane, Rule of Two and Darth Bane, Dynasty of Evil, all ceased to be canon. In the Star Wars universe, Darth Bane is an extremely powerful Sith Lord who lived a millennium before the events of Episode I, the Rule of Two is mentioned by Yoda, but the part were he mentioned Darth Bane was cut from the film. The Rule of Two, philosophy would aid Palpatine in taking over the galaxy a thousand years later in Episode III, Revenge of the Sith. In the television series Star Wars, The Clone Wars sixth and final season, on the episode of the series. Darth Banes backstory is established in Darth Bane, Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn and he is born as Dessel on the planet Apatros, the son of a miner named Hurst. An abusive alcoholic, Hurst blames the boy for the death of his wife in childbirth, Banes father takes him into the mines at a young age, and the boy is bullied and abused well into adulthood. With his latent affinity in the side of the Force. After he kills a Republic Navy ensign in self-defense, Bane flees Apatros to evade arrest, and joins the armies of the Brotherhood of Darkness and his instinctive use of the Force brings him to the attention of the Sith Lord Kopecz. Dessel is sent to the Brotherhoods Academy on Korriban to be trained in the ways of the dark side, Dessel becomes a star pupil after killing another student in cold blood. In particular, he attracts the attention of Sirak, the top student at the Korriban Academy, after Bane realizes that he had indeed killed his father with the dark side, he subconsciously retreats from the Force, losing his power. Bane falls out of favor in the Academy, and is eventually refused any personalized training, months later, in a vain attempt to reestablish himself, Bane challenges Sirak to a fight and is seriously injured in the ensuing duel. Banes training in and ascension to the Sith is detailed in both Path of Destruction and Jedi vs. Sith, as a student, he meets a new apprentice named Githany, who secretly plans to use him to bring down Sirak. Githany reestablishes his connection to the side by showing him in secret what the Sith Lords are teaching her. Most importantly, Bane studies tomes from the Golden Age of the Sith, Githany tells Bane that she intends to challenge Sirak, assuming that Bane would offer to assassinate him to spare her. However, Bane surprises her by revealing his intentions to destroy Sirak personally in the ring. During the duel, he seriously wounds his opponent, but stops just short of killing him, qordis, the main Sith there, knows of his secret training with Githany

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BB-8
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BB-8 is a droid character in the Star Wars franchise, first appearing in the 2015 film Star Wars, The Force Awakens. Spherical with a domed head, BB-8 is portrayed by both a rod puppet and a remote-controlled robotic unit. To that end, the droid BB-8 was a physical prop developed by Disney Research, created by effects artist Neal Scanlan. For shooting, several BB-8 models were constructed, the most prominent was a rod puppet, controlled by puppeteers Dave Chapman and Brian Herring. In addition, there were radio controlled units and some static prop versions. A full functioning, self-contained robotic unit was not practical for shooting, so most of the scenes were achieved by the puppet. Later a self standing remote controlled unit was constructed and used at promotional events, Abrams also named the robot, telling Entertainment Weekly in August 2015, I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, the name was conceived early on in the films production and was one of the few to remain unchanged. The voice of BB-8 was supplied by comedians Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz, the voice was created by Abrams manipulating their voices through a talkbox, attached to an iPad running a sound effects app. BB-8 is a robot with a free-moving domed head. He is white, with orange and silver accents and an optical lens on its headpiece. BB-8 also possesses multiple panels containing various tools or ports, Scanlan said of the robots personality, We always imagined BB-8 as being quite manipulative. I think he knows he’s cute and he knows that he can win people over. And he uses that like children do to get his own way, in this film, he has a very important mission that he has to accomplish and so he uses his personality, his coyness, and all of those things. Of BB-8s gender he said, Im still not sure, dare I say, BB-8 was female in our eyes. And then he or she became male, and thats all part of the evolution, not only visually, but in the way they move, how they hold themselves. If you only have one wheel, youre sort of stuck and if you dont have enough height, BB-8 was first seen in the 88-second The Force Awakens teaser trailer released by Lucasfilm on November 28,2014. Its name was revealed by Entertainment Weekly in a Lucasfilm-designed Topps-style trading card mockup in December 2014, in the film, the robot is the astromech droid of the Resistance X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron

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Jar Jar Binks
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Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character from the Star Wars saga created by George Lucas. He has a cameo in Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. The first lead computer generated character of the franchise, he has been portrayed by Ahmed Best in most of his appearances, Jar Jars primary role in Episode I was to provide comic relief for the audience. Upon the movies release, he was met with a negative reception from both critics and audiences. George Lucas was inspired to develop Jar Jar based on the Disney character Goofy, singer Michael Jackson was originally considered for the role, but he wanted to portray the character using prosthetics while Lucas wanted him to be all CGI. Best would later remark that after Lucas walked out of the audition he felt he had failed it, Jar Jar Binks first appears in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace as a bumbling, foolish Gungan from the planet Naboo. He is nearly killed by a Federation transport, only to be saved at the last minute by Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn, Qui-Gon and his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, persuade Jar Jars tribe to release him to their custody as a guide. He later goes with the Jedi and Padmé Amidala to the planet Tatooine, Jar Jar later appears in the films climactic battle scene, where he leads his fellow Gungans, as a general in the Gungan army, in defeating the Trade Federation. After the battle he appears at the funeral of Qui-Gon Jinn, Jar Jars role in Attack of the Clones is much smaller, but his actions are significant. Later, on the behalf of the Naboo, he gives a speech to the assembled Senate in favor of granting Chancellor Palpatine vast emergency powers. These are granted, giving Palpatine the power he needs to subsequently overthrow the senate, Jar Jar appears in only a few scenes in Revenge of the Sith, and has no dialogue. He was originally given some dialogue in the beginning, but this was cut and he is most prominently featured in Padmé Amidalas funeral procession at the end of the film. Jar Jar Binks is a character in the animated series Star Wars, The Clone Wars, once again voiced by Best. In this series, he is a Senate representative who sometimes accompanies the main characters—Anakin, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, and Padmé—on their adventures. He and master Mace Windu are the two characters of the two-part episode The Disappeared in which they had to search for missing elders and rescue a queen. Chris Taylor of Mashable wrote that the situation reflects real life in that adults disliked Jar Jar in the prequel films, but children were entertained by him. In an interview, director J. J. Abrams suggested that Jar Jars death might be referenced in Star Wars, The Force Awakens, but this did not happen. In the game Star Wars, The Force Unleashed, Jar Jar is shown to have frozen in carbonite by Darth Vader

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C-3PO
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C-3PO or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character from the Star Wars franchise who appears in the original Star Wars films, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy. Created by Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO was designed as a protocol droid intended to assist in etiquette, customs, along with his astromech droid counterpart and friend R2-D2, C-3PO provides comic relief within the narrative structure of the films, and serving as foils. C-3PO also appears frequently in the Star Wars Canon and Star Wars Legends continuities of novels, comic books, and video games, and was a major character in the ABC television show Droids. In Star Wars, C-3PO is introduced to the audience when he, when R2-D2 attempts to leave the ship to deliver a secret message to Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO follows R2-D2 into an escape pod, which lands on the planet Tatooine. There, C-3PO and R2-D2 are captured by Jawas, and are taken to be sold, in the process of being sold to Owen Lars, C-3PO convinces his new owner to buy R2-D2 as well. The duo ultimately lead Lars nephew, Luke Skywalker, to Obi-Wan, when the ship is taken hostage on the Death Star, C-3PO helps R2-D2 shut down the space stations trash computer, saving their human companions lives, before escaping on board the Falcon. When R2-D2 is damaged during the Battle of Yavin, a grief-stricken C-3PO offers to donate his spare parts to repair his counterpart. C-3PO and a repaired R2-D2 are present at the celebration of the Death Stars destruction at the end of the film, throughout the film C-3PO is a foil to R2-D2s antics, even when C-3PO translates R2-D2s machine speech for the audience. When R2 is damaged in the Battle of Yavin, C-3PO offers to donate any mechanical parts helpful in his repair, C-3PO also displays the ability to deceive humans. In The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO is responsible for identifying the Empires probe droid, C-3PO escapes with Han, Chewbacca, and Leia in the Millennium Falcon, while R2-D2 joins Luke in his search for Yoda. During this time C-3PO and Solo are often shown as foils, C-3PO quoting odds, after a chase through the Hoth asteroid field, the Falcon escapes to Cloud City on Bespin. While exploring a room in Cloud City, C-3PO is blasted by an off-camera stormtrooper, in search of R2-D2, Chewbacca heads to the Ugnaught recycling facility where he finds the dismembered parts of the droid. When Darth Vader reveals his presence to the group that day, Chewbacca is sent into a holding cell, but is permitted to rebuild the droid. Thereafter, Chewbacca carries the partially rebuilt C-3PO on his back during Hans encasement in carbonite, with the help of the citys administrator, Lando Calrissian, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO escape the city. Having C-3PO on Chewbaccas back proves to be beneficial, in that when Boba Fett escapes the city with Han Solo, while escaping Vaders flagship Executor, R2-D2 begins repairing C-3PO. After making their way to the Rebels rendezvous point, C-3PO is fully repaired, in Return of the Jedi, Luke commands C-3PO and R2-D2 to deliver a message to Jabba the Hutt, whereby C-3PO is used as Jabbas translator while R2-D2 serves on his flying sail barge. C-3POs first translation for the lord is of the bounty hunter Boushh — Leia in disguise — claiming the bounty for Chewbacca. When Luke attempts escape, R2-D2 tosses him his lightsaber, with which he attacks Jabbas guards, in the midst of the battle, C-3PO is attacked by Salacious Crumb, who pulls out his right photoreceptor before being driven off by R2-D2

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Lando Calrissian
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Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and he also appears frequently in the Star Wars expanded universe of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of novels in which he is the protagonist. The first draft of The Empire Strikes Back featured a character named Lando Kadar and his name and familiar aspects of his backstory materialized in the second draft. Lando Calrissian first appears in The Empire Strikes Back as the administrator of Cloud City, bounty hunter Boba Fett, working for Darth Vader, tracks Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO, traveling in the damaged Millennium Falcon, to Bespin. Shortly before Solo and crew make it to Bespin, Darth Vader, Lando is strongarmed by Vader into betraying his old friend and turning him over to Boba Fett. In the ensuing evacuation of Cloud City, he helps Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO and he then assists Leia in rescuing the maimed Luke Skywalker, who had fallen into Vaders trap and lost his right hand in a duel, from the underside of Cloud City. Afterwards, he joins the Rebel Alliance and promises Leia that they will find Han, in Return of the Jedi, Lando goes undercover to help Luke rescue Han from crime lord Jabba the Hutt. During a battle with Jabbas henchmen, Han saves Lando from being devoured by the Sarlacc, Lando then helps Han, for his heroics, he is made a general in the Rebel Alliance. Lando then takes the chair in his old ship, the Millennium Falcon. He helps the Rebels to victory by destroying the gigantic Imperial battle station, Lando did not appear in The Force Awakens, although Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa and other members of the Rebel Alliance made appearances in the film. The fate of Calrissian, following the Battle of Endor, is unknown, during the early development of the film, Lando was supposed to make an appearance, with Williams reprising the role, but he was finally cut from the film. This action caused the displeasure of some fans, Donald Glover will portray a young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Untitled Han Solo film, which will see a May 25,2018 release. Billy Dee Williams returned to the role in the Star Wars Rebels episodes Idiots Array and Star Wars Rebels, The Siege of Lothal. In Idiots Array, Lando wins Chopper, the repair droid of the crew of the Ghost, in a game of sabacc, the crew become reluctant business partners to Lando following the ordeal, leading to their first encounter with the crime boss Azmorigan. In The Siege of Lothal the crew of the Ghost reluctantly approach Lando for help in getting off of Lothal and he is also mentioned on occasion in various other episodes, becoming one of a couple of aliases employed by Ezra Bridger. Billy Dee Williams reprises his role as Lando Calrissian in various games, including Jedi Knight II, Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Battlefront, Lando Calrissian is the star of the Lando comic book series there are 5 comic in the series, published by Marvel Comics. The Star Wars comic book released by Marvel Comics featured Lando as a prominent character following The Empire Strikes Back. During The Corellian Trilogy, Calrissian goes on a hunt for a rich wife

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Chewbacca
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Chewbacca, nicknamed Chewie, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a Wookiee, a tall, hirsute biped and intelligent species from the planet Kashyyyk, Chewbacca is the loyal friend and associate of Han Solo, and serves as co-pilot on Solos spaceship, the Millennium Falcon. The character has appeared on television, in books, comics. To repay this debt, Chewbacca protected Han for the rest of his life, standing at 8 feet tall, Chewbacca is covered with long hair, and wears only a bandolier. His weapon of choice is the Wookiee bowcaster, Chewbacca was named one of the greatest sidekicks in film history by Entertainment Weekly. In Italy the name of Chewbacca was changed to Chewbecca and his nickname is Chewbe, Chewbaccas creation as a gentle, hairy, non-English-speaking co-pilot was inspired by George Lucas seeing his own dog sitting up on the passenger seat of his car. It is said that Chewbaccas name is derived from собака, the Russian word for dog, in all five screen appearances, Chewbacca was played by Peter Mayhew, who was chosen for his height of 73. Five identical costumes were made for Mayhew, in the three films and a holiday special, the suits were made of yak hair and mohair. In Revenge of the Sith, the suit was made of more comfortable materials, only Mayhews blue eyes could be seen in his costume, but fans easily recognize him by his gestures, and his co-workers claimed the ability to tell when a stand-in was taking his place. Chewbaccas voice was created by the films sound designer, Ben Burtt, from recordings of walruses, lions, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers. The individual recordings were mixed at different ratios for Chewbaccas different utterances, one of the most prominent elements in the voice was a black bear named Tarik, from Happy Hollow Zoo in San Jose, California. The original costume was created by Stuart Freeborn and his wife Kay Freeborn, First appearing in Star Wars, Chewbacca and Han Solo accept a charter to take Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to the planet Alderaan. When they find the destroyed by the Death Star, the two smugglers are drawn into the Rebel Alliance. As part of a plan to rescue Leia, Luke tries to put handcuffs on Chewbacca to make it look like hes a prisoner. Chewbacca almost attacks Luke believing him to be selling him and Solo out, after rescuing Leia and taking her to the rebel base on Yavin IV, the two smugglers are given reward money in the value of a payload lost by him to which he owes Jabba The Hutt. Somehow, Chewbacca is able to convince Han to put his debt to Jabba aside for the time being and they manage to save Luke from being killed, also allowing him to be the one to destroy the space station. In The Empire Strikes Back, Chewbacca finds a dismantled C-3PO in a pile in Cloud City. He later tries to him, but does a terrible job at it

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Poe Dameron
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Poe Dameron is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the 2015 film Star Wars, The Force Awakens and he is featured in The Force Awakens media and merchandising as well as an eponymous comic book series, and will appear in the films forthcoming sequel, Star Wars, The Last Jedi. Isaac and the character have received positive reviews, with Poe being compared to the characterization of Han Solo in the original Star Wars film trilogy. During the development phase of The Force Awakens, the character was referred to as John Doe and was first intended to be a Jedi. Isaacs casting in the film was first announced on April 29,2014 and his character was first seen in the 88-second The Force Awakens teaser trailer released by Lucasfilm on November 28,2014, piloting an X-wing fighter. The name Poe Dameron was revealed by Entertainment Weekly in a Lucasfilm-designed Topps-style trading card mockup in December 2014, the character was one of those featured in a May 2015 Vanity Fair photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz. He was named after The Force Awakens writer/director J. J. Abrams assistant Morgan Dameron, the film has received praise for its diverse casting, including Isaac, who is Guatemalan-American. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that giving starring roles to a man, a white woman. Targeted at Spanish-speaking viewers, an action-oriented Univision TV spot heavily featuring Poe included an introduction by Isaac in Spanish, after an initial release of promotional character posters in November 2015, a poster featuring Isaacs Poe was released the following month. In The Force Awakens, Poe is a skilled X-wing fighter pilot for the Resistance, the son of a rebel fighter pilot and a rebel commando, he is a commander in the Resistance’s Starfighter Corps and one of Leia Organas most-trusted operatives who is headstrong and can fly anything. Isaac described Poe as the best freaking pilot in the galaxy, hes been sent on a mission by a certain princess, and he ends up coming up across, and their fates are forever intertwined. Natalie Zutter and Chris Lough of Tor. com wrote, Poe is that rare creature who knows exactly what he wants to do with his life, Isaac said of the character, Poe’s the kind of guy you want in the trenches with you. He’s straightforward, he’s honest, hes incredibly loyal and he’s got some swagger to him, katy Waldman wrote for Slate, This is Poe Dameron, star pilot, heartthrob, wiseass, ace leather jacket–bestower, Finn’s OTP. When he grins up at, all rakish charm and derring-do, comic book writer Charles Soule, creator of the 2015 Marvel Comics series Star Wars, Poe Dameron, said of the character, I think its his charisma that really defines him, for me. Poe Dameron is one charming fellow, weve seen great pilots before, and great warriors, but his ability to lead and inspire feels pretty fresh to me, as is his somewhat snappy roguishness. Poe Dameron is the star pilot of General Leia Organas Resistance fleet. He is sent by Leia on a mission to the planet Jakku to retrieve part of a map that lead to the location of her brother. Before Poe can leave with the map, the First Order attacks, the pilot has entrusted the map to BB-8, who flees into the desert as Kylo Ren tortures Poe in search of the map

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Count Dooku
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Count Dooku is a fictional character from the Star Wars franchise, appearing in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. As the founder of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, he is instrumental in the Clone Wars, Dooku was trained by Yoda as a Padawan learner. He says that the Republic is corrupt, and that its politicians are more interested in maintaining the bureaucracy and enriching themselves than in helping poor, Dooku recruits bounty hunter Jango Fett to assassinate Padmé Amidala on Coruscant, the attempt on her life fails, however. When a fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi forces Fett to flee from Kamino to Geonosis, after capturing Obi-Wan on Geonosis, Dooku tells him that hes attempting to save the Republic, explaining that thousands of senators are under the influence of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. When Obi-Wan refuses to him, Dooku promptly sentences him to death. After an army of Jedi and clone troopers rescue Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé, Dooku tries to flee, but Anakin and Obi-Wan engage him in a lightsaber duel. Dooku subdues Anakin with a blast of Force lightning, and wounds Obi-Wan with his lightsaber, when Anakin comes to Obi-Wans defense, Dooku cuts off the young Padawans arm. Just as Dooku is about to escape, Yoda confronts him, unable to match Yodas speed and agility, Dooku distracts his former master by using the Force to dislodge a large pillar and send it hurtling toward Anakin and Obi-Wan. While Yoda is busy saving them, Dooku escapes, after he arrives on Coruscant, Dooku shows the Geonosian designs of the Death Star to Darth Sidious and informs his master that their plan is working, The war has begun. Anakin and Obi-Wan board Grievous ship and confront Dooku, who knocks Obi-Wan unconscious, Anakin gives in to his hatred of Dooku and taps into the dark side to overpower him, severing both of Dookus hands and leaving him helpless. Palpatine then tells Anakin to kill Dooku on the spot, after initial hesitation and this act sets off a chain of events that leads to Anakins fall to the dark side and transformation into Darth Vader. In the 2008 CGI film Star Wars, The Clone Wars, after Ziros agents deliver the Huttlet to the planet Teth, Dooku contacts Ziro again to arrange for his minion Asajj Ventress to take custody of Rotta. When Jabba requests Jedi assistance to rescue his son, Dooku plans to frame the Jedi for the crime, Dooku duels Anakin for the first time since their encounter in Attack of the Clones. The duel ends in a draw, and Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano eventually foil Dookus plan, in the 2008 animated series Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Dooku is the leader of the Separatists. The plan falls through when Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore urges the Galactic Senate to hold off a military force, in the third season, Dooku is forced to eliminate Ventress to prove his loyalty to Sidious. Ventress survives, however, and works with Mother Talzin to kill Dooku by giving him Savage Opress as a replacement apprentice, during a confrontation between Dooku and Ventress, Savage turns on both. In the fourth season, after defeating Anakin in three separate lightsaber duels, Dooku gets his revenge on Ventress by having Grievous order the systematic genocide of the Nightsisters. Believing both Ventress and Talzin have been killed, Dookus knows the only left to him is Savage while sensing his eventual meeting with Darth Maul

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (soundtrack)
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John Williams score for Star Wars was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8–12,15 and 16,1977. The score was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Williams himself conducting, the score was orchestrated by Williamss frequent associate Herbert W. Spencer, who also orchestrated The Empire Strikes Bac

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Cover of the original 1977 release.

Chalmun's Cantina
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The Chalmuns Cantina is a fictional bar of the Star Wars universe located in the pirate city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine. The establishment is extremely rough in nature, and the clientele, droids are not allowed inside, a droid detector near the front door alerts the management of any entering droid. The exterior scene was filmed in 1976 a

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Exterior of the Cantina, at Ajim, Tunisia

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Mos Eisley cantina (exterior) in 2011.

Mos Eisley Cantina
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The Chalmuns Cantina is a fictional bar of the Star Wars universe located in the pirate city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine. The establishment is extremely rough in nature, and the clientele, droids are not allowed inside, a droid detector near the front door alerts the management of any entering droid. The exterior scene was filmed in 1976 a

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Exterior of the Cantina, at Ajim, Tunisia

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Mos Eisley cantina (exterior) in 2011.

George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern

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Lucas in 2009

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Director Jim Henson (left) and Lucas (right) working on Labyrinth in 1986.

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Lucas at the Time 100 2006 gala

Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a defini

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A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives.

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H. G. Wells

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Jules Verne

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Arthur C. Clarke

Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, th

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A street performer in costume as Darth Vader in Amsterdam. Vader is one of the most iconic characters of the Star Wars franchise.

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The Star Wars logo as seen in all films

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George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars

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John Williams, composer of the musical scores for all six films of the original and prequel trilogies.

Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alli

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Anthony Daniels (pictured here in 2005) was convinced to take the role of the droid C-3PO after seeing a design drawing of the character's face

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George Lucas, the director and writer of Star Wars, shown here in 2007. He was unsuccessful in pitching his idea to several major Hollywood studios because it was "a little strange". Eventually, Lucas presented the treatment to 20th Century Fox, and the film was approved.

Extraterrestrial life (popular culture)
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Extraterrestrials, a common theme in modern science-fiction, also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata. An extraterrestrial or alien is any extraterrestrial lifeform, a lifeform that did not originate on Earth, the word extraterrestrial means outside Earth. The first published use of ex

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Martian controlled Tripod, from War of the Worlds

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Kaguya-hime returning to the Moon in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (c. 1650).

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Lithograph from the Great Moon Hoax

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A bug-eyed monster, a trope of early science fiction

List of Star Wars races (A-E)
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The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by three sequels and three prequels. Many species of creatures are depicted. The Abyssin inhabit the planet Byss and they are a nomadic race, often described as brutish and violent. They stand approximately two meters tall an

Team America: World Police
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The title is derived from domestic and international political criticisms that the foreign policy of the United States frequently and unilaterally tries to police the world. The use of marionettes instead of actors in a film is a reference to Thunderbirds. The duo worked on the script with former South Park writer Brady for nearly two years, the fi

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Theatrical release poster

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Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were exhausted with production on Team America and its scheduling extremes.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was parodied in the film, and the DPRK asked the Czech Republic to ban it.

Instrumental
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An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting. The music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments, if the instrumental section highlights the skill, musicality, and often the virtuosity of a

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Indian nadaswaram and tavil music is one of the oldest traditions in instrumental music.

John Williams
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John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, Jurassic Park, Schindlers List, Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but two of his feature films. Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven

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Williams at the Avery Fisher Hall in 2007

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Williams at the Boston Symphony Hall after conducting the Boston Pops, May 2006

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John Williams conducting the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark in the Avery Fisher Hall.

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Williams signing an autograph after a concert

Daniel Keys Moran
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Daniel Keys Moran, also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer. Moran was born in Los Angeles to Richard Joseph Moran and Marilynn Joyce Moran and he has three sisters, Kari Lynn Moran, Jodi Anne Moran and Kathleen Moran. A native of Southern California, he lived in North Hollywood. DKM, his third w

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Stepping through a “doorway” in The Armageddon Blues

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The PKF chase Trent in The Long Run

Luke Skywalker
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Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. The character, portrayed by Mark Hamill, is an important figure in the Rebel Alliances struggle against the Galactic Empire. The now non-canon Star Wars expanded universe depicts him as a powerful Jedi Ma

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Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi

Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Obi-Wan Ben Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor in the films. In the original trilogy, he is a mentor to Luke Skywalker, in the prequel trilogy, he is a master and friend to Anakin Skywalker. He is frequently featured as a character in various other Star Wars media. Obi-Wan Kenobi

Rick Baker (makeup artist)
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Richard A. Rick Baker is an American special make-up effects creator, make-up artist, and special effects supervisor, mostly known for his creature effects, he was also a creature designer. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, Baker was born in Binghamton, New York, to Do

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Baker in February 2015

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Baker at the 2011 Saturn Awards

Phil Tippett
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Phil Tippett is an American movie director and a visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation. Tippett was born in Berkeley, California, when he was seven, Tippett saw Ray Harryhausens special effects classic, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and his lifes direction was set. Tippett completed a deg

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Tippett (left) with Dennis Muren at a screening of Jurassic Park 3D in 2013.

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Phil Tippett is here moving a Monoclonius model, in order to obtain a single frame shot for his go motion animated short Prehistoric Beast. Tippett started his own company, the Tippett Studio, with this short in 1984.

Hasbro
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/ˈhæzbroʊ/ is an American multinational toy and board game company. Hasbro is the third largest toy maker in the world with revenues of approximately $4.45 billion, Hasbro acquired the trademarks and products of Kenner, Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, among others. Among its toy and game products are the iconic Monopoly board game, Joe figurine

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A selection of knockoff Jumpstarters, a variety of Transformers

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Making the World Smile

Action figure
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An action figure is a poseable character figurine, made of plastic or other materials, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, video game, or television program. These action figures are usually marketed toward boys and adult collectors, according to a study in Sweden, action figures with traditional masculine traits primarily targ

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Action figures and accessories

Walmart
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. doing business as Walmart, is an American multinational retailing corporation that operates as a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, as of January 31,2017, Walmart has 11,695 stores and clubs in 28 countrie

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Walmart headquarters building

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Sam Walton's original Walton's Five and Dime store in Bentonville, Arkansas now serving as the Walmart Visitor Center

R2-D2
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R2-D2 is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, who appears in the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, the sequel trilogy, and Rogue One. A small astromech droid, R2-D2 is a character and appears in all Star Wars films to date. Throughout the course of the films, he joins or supports Padmé Amidala, Anakin

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Dean of special effects John Stears working on an R2-D2 unit, Tunisia 1977

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R2-D2

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A R2-D2 themed mailbox in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the celebration for Star Wars' 30th anniversary

Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in

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The Billboard logo

London Symphony Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1904, is the oldest of Londons symphony orchestras. It was set up by a group of players who left Henry Woods Queens Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services, the LSO itself later introduced a similar rule for its members. From the outset, the LSO

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Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, June 2011

Star Wars and other Galactic Funk
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Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk is a disco album by Meco released in 1977. The album uses various musical themes from the Star Wars soundtrack arranged as instrumental disco music, a single from the album, Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 1,1977, holding to that position for two weeks. The album

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Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk

Ash (band)
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Ash is a Northern Irish alternative rock band, formed in Downpatrick in 1992 by vocalist and guitarist Tim Wheeler, bassist Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray. As a three-piece, they released mini-album Trailer in 1994, followed by 1977 in 1996 and this 1996 release was named by NME as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. After the succ

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Ash performing at the O2 ABC in Glasgow in 2010

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Ash in Bangkok, Thailand, 1999

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Ash playing a gig in Dublin in 2007

B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrument

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Victor 17929A and 17929B.

Girl From Mars
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Girl from Mars is a single by Northern Irish band Ash, the second to be released from the album 1977. It was released on 31 July 1995 on CD, a 7 vinyl, and as a cassette. Girl from Mars was Ashs first Top 40 single, reaching number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, number 16 on the Irish Singles Chart, and the first single to bring the band to mainstream

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"Girl from Mars"

Asylum Street Spankers
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The Asylum Street Spankers, formed in Austin, Texas in 1994, were a band whose music was rooted in early 20th century American musical forms. In 2006, the bands satirical anti-war video Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV surpassed 1 million hits in two months on YouTube, in January 2011 the band won The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the G

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Asylum Street Spankers

Paul (film)
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Paul is a 2011 British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The film is about two science fiction geeks who meet an extraterrestrial being, voiced by Seth Rogen, with a sarcastic manner and they help the alien to escape the Secret Service agents pursuing him, so that he

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United kingdom theatrical release poster

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Seth Rogen provides the voice and motion capture work for Paul.

International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning

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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar code

Wookieepedia
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The name Wookieepedia is a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia. The logo, too, is a visual pun showing the incomplete second Death Star as opposed to Wikipedias incomplete jigsaw logo and it is a fan-built version of the Holocron, a database maintained by Lucasfilm to track everything in the Star Wars universe an

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Wookieepedia

List of Star Wars characters
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This list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon. C-3PO and R2-D2 are the characters to appear in all films to date

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Jedi Master Kit Fisto

Admiral Ackbar
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Admiral Gial Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. A member of the amphibious Mon Calamari species, Ackbar was the foremost military commander of the Rebel Alliance who led combat operations against the Galactic Empire. Ackbar played a role in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. He was portrayed in the film by puppeteer Timothy

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Admiral Ackbar as featured in Return of the Jedi (1983)

Cad Bane
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Cad Bane is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy as a recurring antagonist voiced by Corey Burton in Star Wars, The Clone Wars. The character is a cold and manipulative bounty hunter from the planet Duro, the character was created for the 2008 Star Wars, The Clone Wars television se

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Cad Bane's first design in The Clone Wars.

Darth Bane
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Darth Bane is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Darth Banes only on-screen appearance happens when he appears as a vision to Jedi master Yoda, in the last episode of the animated series Star Wars, The Clone Wars, he was voiced by Mark Hamill. Sith and the novels Darth Bane, Path of Destruction, Darth Bane, Rule of Two and Darth Bane

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Darth Bane (Dessel)

BB-8
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BB-8 is a droid character in the Star Wars franchise, first appearing in the 2015 film Star Wars, The Force Awakens. Spherical with a domed head, BB-8 is portrayed by both a rod puppet and a remote-controlled robotic unit. To that end, the droid BB-8 was a physical prop developed by Disney Research, created by effects artist Neal Scanlan. For shoot

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Alabama off New York City in 1912

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Alabama in Philadelphia in 1919

Jar Jar Binks
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Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character from the Star Wars saga created by George Lucas. He has a cameo in Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. The first lead computer generated character of the franchise, he has been portrayed by Ahmed Best in most of his appearances, Jar Jars primary role in Episode I was to provide comic relief for the audience. Upon t

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Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

C-3PO
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C-3PO or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character from the Star Wars franchise who appears in the original Star Wars films, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy. Created by Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO was designed as a protocol droid intended to assist in etiquette, customs, along with his astromech droid counterpart and friend R2-D2, C-3PO pro

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Figure of C-3PO at the San Diego Museum of Man

Lando Calrissian
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Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and he also appears frequently in the Star Wars expanded universe of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of novels in which he is the protagonist. The first draft of The Em

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Williams as Lando Calrissian

Chewbacca
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Chewbacca, nicknamed Chewie, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a Wookiee, a tall, hirsute biped and intelligent species from the planet Kashyyyk, Chewbacca is the loyal friend and associate of Han Solo, and serves as co-pilot on Solos spaceship, the Millennium Falcon. The character has appeared on television, in books, comi

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Chewbacca in Star Wars

Poe Dameron
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Poe Dameron is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the 2015 film Star Wars, The Force Awakens and he is featured in The Force Awakens media and merchandising as well as an eponymous comic book series, and will appear in the films forthcoming sequel, Star Wars, The Last Jedi. Isaac and the character have received positive

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Skellig Michael in Ireland (top) and former RAF Greenham Common in England served as filming locations.

Count Dooku
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Count Dooku is a fictional character from the Star Wars franchise, appearing in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. As the founder of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, he is instrumental in the Clone Wars, Dooku was trained by Yoda as a Padawan learner. He says that the Republic is co

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Samuel Witwer provides both the voice and the likeness for Starkiller's character.

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Starkiller in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008).

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In the dark side ending of The Force Unleashed, Starkiller is made the Emperor's apprentice. This redesign was reused in the Ultimate Sith Edition of the game. GamesRadar criticised the design for being just "Vader with Boba Fett 's helmet".

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The Jedi were considered scholars of erudite lore, keepers of the peace, and the guardians of justice in the galaxy, with Jedi Masters often working together on missions with their respective Padawan apprentices in order to pass their knowledge and employ their abilities on the field.